Suffer complications. Joining me to talk about, is former Staff Surgeon of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral chin. Good even afternoon, thanks for having me on. Huh a distinguished career in the navy. You served domestically, and internationally. And you have helped in combat situations, and absolutely, honored to have you on the program. And also, youre from San Francisco . Yeah, i am born and raised in the bay area. My family has been in the bay area for four generations and i remember watching kgo. Oh, we are honored. Where did you go to high school . All right, santa fe high school. All right. I want to launch in a question of covid19 patients. Who do we know about the percentage of those who are deemed long hauler. They recover from the initial hit but they continue to suffer complications. Is that a lot of people . Yeah, that is currently under investigation. We know a lot about the acute phases of covid19. We know in the united states, close to 9 Million People affected and 230
Is to take the pressure off of civilian hospitals when it comes to trauma cases for. Nfectious diseases all the doctors and nurses come from our medical facilities or they come from the reserves which means civilians, so we have to be careful as we call the units or use them that we , i dont want to take reservists from a hospital to take them somewhere they are needed. We talked about that and i think people are beginning to see what the tradeoff means. The white house says they dont want to have the guard go hotspotse and focus on. Is that what you are looking at early on . Tags and it isir a resource available at their fingertips. Chance to talk to the director of the National Guard bureau. Tags andking to the that is available to them. We are the ones where we can come in and really help enable through the guard and reserve to play that role initially. Of the coordinate through various federal agencies. Is that something you are considering . , the daytoday meetings general heiden
I would like to speak about what the department of defense is doing in response to the coronavirus. I want to remind everyone that the United States military is is remains ready and capable of meeting our requirements. I just returned from a visit to fort detrick seeing how theyre advancing treatments for the coronavirus. I was tpwhreevend Army Medical Research cutting edge covid19 response and then visited the Army Medical Research institute of Infectious Diseases to learn about its ongoing experimentation and testing. The armys work on a vaccine is one of the many ways the department of defense is supporting president trumps whole of government approach to fight the virus and substantially slow its spread. Many of the policies and guidelines we have released go hand in hand with the president s 15day plan. We have issued international and Domestic Travel restrictions to all d. O. D. Personnel and families that should dramatically reduce exposure to the virus. Inside the pentagon we a
Today and we welcome them. Lieutenant dingell, rear admiral bruce gillingham, surgeon of the u. S. Navy. Lieutenant general dorothy hogg, Surgeon General of the United States air force. Mr. Mccaffrey, assistant secretary of defense for Health Affairs and lieutenant ronald j. Pace director of Health Agency and mr. Bill tinston Program Executive officer of Defense Health care and management systems. Today we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the president s budget for fiscal year 2021. We will have members coming in and out. We are getting briefings on covid19 as we speak and theres a few other meetings going on. Your full testimony is available and i know members had it like i did last night to read through it. Well get start. Across is the spectrum of the military health care to benefit care in many cases the budget justifications lacks adequate detail for the subcommittee to make informed decisions. We hope the Witnesses Today can address the sub
Any time, unfiltered, at. Org coronavirus. Next, defense secretary esper briefs reporters on his departmentd response to the coronavirus. This is about 25 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Id like to provide an update on dods coronavirus efforts as we continue focusing on our three priorities. Protecting our troops, their families, and personnel. Safeguarding our National Security missions, and supporting the administrations government approach to addressing this National Health emergency. At the same time, i want to assure the people that the u. S. Military remains ready and capable of meeting all of our National Security requirements. I just returned from a visit to see firsthand how dod doctors and scientists are combating the coronavirus. As briefed on the Army Medical Research and Development Command cuttingedge response, and i visited the Army Medical Research institute of Infectious Diseases to learn about the ongoing experimentation and testing. The armys work on a vaccine is